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O. H. TERRY.

VEHIGLB SPRING;

No. 337,208. Patented Mar. 2,1886.

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VEHICLE-SPRING.

ta'PECIFICJ-LTION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,208, dated March 2,1886.

Application filed September 26, 1885. Serial No. 178,292. (No model.)

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thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a detail view in perspective of my improved vehicle spring, and Fig. 2 an end view of a wagon body or box, partly in section, showing the springs connected thereto and to the side bars.

The present invention has for its object to provide a simple and etfective spring for vehicles; and it consists in the details of construction, substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the spring A is composed of a fiat bar of steel which is bent to form a V from point a to point 12 c, and the lower portion of the spring from point 0 is bent to form a quarter-circle extension, d, which extends up above or onthe same plane with the upper portion of the spring, as shown. Theextremity of the quarter-circle extension d terminates in an eye, 6, for attaching it by the usual means to the side bars of the vehicle, while the extremity of the upper portion of the spring is curved in a downward direction to form a stop, as shown at f, to prevent the spring from slipping from its fastening. The extremityvof the extension d may be of such length as to enable the eyes e to be suitably attached to or fit on cross-bar of the vehicle.

In applying the springs four of them may be used, the box or body of the vehicle resting thereon, the springs being attached thereto by any of the usual fastenings.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

- A vehicle-spring formed of a flat bar of steel bent to form a V from point a to point be, the sides thereof being straight, as shown, the extremity of the upper portion of the spring being bent to form a stop, f, and the lower portion from point a to d bent to form a quartercircle, and its extremity extending upwardly and outwardly and terminating in an eye, 6,

substantially as and for the purpose set forth. In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. TERRY. Witnesses:

FRANK Frron, EDWARD FITCH. 

